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Friday, January 23, 2026

Bernadette, The Musical Isn't Just the Story of a Saint; It's the Story of a Girl

Playbill: From a theatrical poster stylized to evoke a watercolor painting, a young girl gazes pensively at the viewer, her portrait awash in soft tones of blue, white, and red. While the design may nod to the iconic artwork for Les Misérables, it’s actually promoting another melodic show set in 19th-century France: Bernadette, The Musical which tells the story of an impoverished teenager from Lourdes who saw a series of apparitions believed to be the Virgin Mary.

1 comment:

Eliana Stevens said...

As a newcomer who has never heard of this story and his first impression is this article I want to see the show so badly now, This show seems absolutely deep in storytelling and I love what a musical is like deep in storytelling and not just all like jazz hands and dancing I love a good story I want to know more about this musical after reading this article. I really enjoyed the part of the article where the actor talks about how the journey of faith and finding what you believe in is the whole reasoning to life and it's not a thing you're born into or something that you come across yearly in life it's something that is being worked on and is a journey that is from birth to death and I think that is just some beautiful wording of life that then entails to a beautiful story.